WAIAU TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18507, 8 October 1925, Page 8

WAIAU TRAGEDY.

NO TRACE OF BODY. \ Constable J. F. Lamb,' of and Constable W. Kenealy, of W*Ws» continued the search yoHteTday tor tPff body of Benjamin Bailey Couaton,,J||J 5 Liverpool street, J>uned.in. who Sigfe denly disappeared over tho bide of Cbristchurch-Hanmer motoi-bus passing over the Waiaii Bridge on TM*jm-j A So far thero are very few detail* Ws&Bt', how Couston pot out of the car. Jgi&. was sitting in the third seat when VHm\ car crossed the bridge, having pKffcAHgr, ly with His -Rife in «§& second seat. He made the «* M B*J?P avqid a draught. The drop from -jg|| bridge is about 120 feet, an present time the river is in high »MW||p There was no warning \of any I«K< usual happening until the attentio©s||?: tht> driver was attracted by a **'Ssr from Couston. The P**MglSt, then saw the body floating swiftly m If the river, and a party Jolb«6d>flg|4 Bomo time, but were unablo to MfiKc sace. Couston was a patient on bis way to the Hatuner Mi, pital for treatment. < ■SjgjtS A party of settlers joined i fl JliL search yesterday, but up*ill last fl |HJ|§: there was no trace of the body. **jyi|§ is considered that the choiioes of it are small on account of the JMrngT Every endeavour is being locate it. • * "Jap 1 ' (SPBCIAt TO "TSTI rsiw.") *^i& DUNEDIN, Mr B. B. Couston was Dunedin. He was educated ■*3Hpr Otago Boys' High School, and hj» •*£B| liis apprenticeship to Mr Robert as a Civil enginoer and suireyorM||M employed afterwards as assirtawfc ig%i Mr Hay. Ho was .appointed yjJSfB. to Taieri County Council oT«rttJß;?' years ago, and pf late years engineer, to the Taieri River Taieri drainage problem waa chief studies, but he had an <a ?r?JEL lv practice otherwise, and was as a leading engineer. He le" •jngfSjj edin on Monday with his wife at Haruner. Mrs Couston is left Tajh a daughter and a son. *i2§&s -News oi the mishap was beafi Tfgljh general Tegreb in Dunedin, Couston was personally one of tflMBSa amiable and friendly of nun, * l "jjMg fessionally his standing waa ver^^®l